i got mailbombed today

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thanks to hotmail selling my address to them schmoes, i'm getting mail bombed. fuck you, hotmail, shove it up your ass.

― di, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Today I got 700 (oh yes, count them) identical e-mails from some bloody club in Chicago sending me their listings. I would take it as a minor slip up, except it's the third week in a row it's happened and IT people said they'd blocked the address. So now Thursday is multiple e-mail day. Bastards.

― Anna, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i got thison monday: the first demon operative said "sorry sir can't interfere with yr mail by law" => but the second said, "interfere with yr mail, sir? lemme at it": sorted since then

i was being spammed by "undeliverable" viagra ads which an evil robot said *i* was sending (and i wasn't!!) (DO YOU SEE!!)

― mark s, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got so many of the same damn junk e-mail about mortgage rates that Hotmail actually shut down my account. I was not pleased.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've now started to get bestiality porn in my Hotmail inbox. I haven't opened any of them. Yet.

― N., Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Some of the titles on the bestiality porn are really funny.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i get viagra ada and ZOO porn and all sorts really. Makes me feel wanted.

I tell you, I got NONE before I started ILEing

― misterjones, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can run junk mail settings on hotmail now, though. I have that set up and I only get maybe 5-10 spam emails a day.

― Nicole, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have that set to the highest level of protection and still get around 15 a day (about 100 get filtered into my trash). I leave Hotmail for a fortnight and it tells me my mailbox is full, despite the fact that I never really use it.

― N., Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I have to check mine once a day because I keep getting stupid emails from the people I did my group project with for school. Otherwise it does become unmanageable pretty quickly -- and then hotmail uses this as an excuse to sell you more storage space.

― Nicole, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If I ever met someone who had bought something as a result of a spam, I think I would shout at them.

― N., Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Or at least send them an abusive e-mail. (Remember Nick - you are harder on the Interweb).

― Pete, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

have you never thought tho, those pyramid schemes, they might JUST WORK.... you know, if you were near the UNBLINKING RED VEINED EYE at the top.

If you don't carry this thread on UNTOLD MISFORTUNATE WILL FALL AT YOUR DOOR...

― misterjones, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i accidentally joined this club for assholes and they sent me a trillion pointless emalis, had to go to yahoo to leave the club

― mike hanle y, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i get hot wet pussy spam. If they are going to send me porn spam, maybe they could name search and find that i like my pussies with four legs.

― anthony, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Perhaps N could forward you some of his beastiality porn, Anthony...

― Andrew L, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just been clearing out some of the junk in my hotmail account - my two faves: 'Get A Sickly Huge Cock' and 'Watch Me Bang Myself Live'.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i seriously do not understand the economics of spam, at all. how do the spammers make money? do they? or is it just another herbalife-type scam?

― maura, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My hotmail account got it too. What's the point of doing that sort of thing to someone? do they actually think that will make us more inclined to visit their site and watch "BRITNEY SPEARS GET FUCKED HARD!!!!!"? Well, come to think of it...

― Dan I., Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Recent spam:

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She'd love you more if you didn't snore .... ...
Loss of Hair a Problem For You? WE CAN HELP! ...
Tired of Making Your Boss Rich??
Dr.-Approved Pill Will Add 1"to 3" In 10 dqys...
IT DOESNT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!

― jel --, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Watch Me Bang Myself Live

I misread this as 'Watch Me Being Myself Live'. Hmm, not a bad idea for an online moneyspinner. I think I'll send 34,978 unsolicited and deeply irritating e mails with undeliverable return addresses about it to strangers tonight. Perhaps one will subscribe.

If James Joyce were around today, would he celebrate spam the way he celebrated the ads on the side of Dublin buses in 'Ulysses'? 'Eat Plumtree's potted meat'.

― Momus, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If James Joyce were around today, would he celebrate spam the way he celebrated the ads on the side of Dublin buses in 'Ulysses'? 'Eat Plumtree's potted meat'.

Prolly not. You can't really get any randy literary jokes out of SPAM...unless Joyce wanted to underscore the pork angle.

― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

its still happening, i just got 355 of the same message "MEN"S HEALTH BREAKTHROUGH!" in the last 4 hours. will it ever end??????

― di, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

today was particularly bad, and it's all il* stuff, weird shit, ltos of viruses

― Queen G, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i got messages from geoff, dirty vicar, and someone i'm forgetting which were more than likely all viruses. if you're going to email me within the next week, make damn sure the subject header lets me know it isnt a virus.

― jess, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it finally stopped.

― di, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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